KOLKATA: Faith and social media have come in combination within the city, serving to churches — a few of which are more than 200 years old — bond with their current parishioners and connect to new ones.
The use of social media helps in both short- and long-term duties, say church leaders, with lots of them now logging into Facebook to disseminate data among members about up-coming occasions (like seminars on social issues or particular occasions or even fund-raising) as well amplify their online communities.
Most of the large churches now have their own Facebook pages and church leaders say they've noticed social media contributing to another large sure, producing many more one-on-one (online) conversations between atypical members of the group who, in a different way, do not have spoken to one another. Many now use Facebook to proportion pictures of church programmes and promote actions adapted to different sections.
“Social media is a useful useful resource, which we will use to glue, have interaction in conversations and spread the message of Christ. We use our Facebook page to proportion information about seminars and prayer products and services,” Reverend Swarup Bar of St Andrew’s Church said. This church has been sharing data and images of several programmes on its Facebook page.
The social media mobile of Church of Christ the King assists in keeping members of its Facebook page engaged and informed virtually day by day. “We use social media to proportion information about several schemes in order that our members benefit,” Father Vincent Lobo told TOI.
A dental check-up organised via the church final month and shared on Facebook is a contemporary example. Pictures of celebrations round International Women’s Day were shared a couple of instances. The church is now celebrating its 75 years and feeding 75 needy other folks on a daily basis.
The iconic St Paul’s Cathedral, which is undergoing recovery paintings, has used its Facebook page to enchantment to its members to give a contribution budget thru account-payee cheques for the “massive repairs”.
Social media, say both church leaders and parishioners, are a large lend a hand relating to bridging the distance with absent parishioners, both young and old. Many young parishioners now paintings in other Indian towns or abroad and miss out on actions undertaken via their church. Elderly members often cannot attend church celebrations as a result of they is also indisposed. So churches now upload pictures or go live to tell the tale their pages, giving updates to these members.
Duff Church in Maniktala, as an example, organised several Facebook lives and uploaded pictures of prayer products and services and celebrations all the way through Christmas final year for members who could no longer attend. “It is a way of together with everyone in our pleasure and celebrations,” Reverend Biswajit Biswas said.
“We have taken to importing pictures of church programmes,” Reverend Sourojit Biswas of Osmond Memorial Church on S N Banerjee Road said.
The use of social media helps in both short- and long-term duties, say church leaders, with lots of them now logging into Facebook to disseminate data among members about up-coming occasions (like seminars on social issues or particular occasions or even fund-raising) as well amplify their online communities.
Most of the large churches now have their own Facebook pages and church leaders say they've noticed social media contributing to another large sure, producing many more one-on-one (online) conversations between atypical members of the group who, in a different way, do not have spoken to one another. Many now use Facebook to proportion pictures of church programmes and promote actions adapted to different sections.
“Social media is a useful useful resource, which we will use to glue, have interaction in conversations and spread the message of Christ. We use our Facebook page to proportion information about seminars and prayer products and services,” Reverend Swarup Bar of St Andrew’s Church said. This church has been sharing data and images of several programmes on its Facebook page.
The social media mobile of Church of Christ the King assists in keeping members of its Facebook page engaged and informed virtually day by day. “We use social media to proportion information about several schemes in order that our members benefit,” Father Vincent Lobo told TOI.
A dental check-up organised via the church final month and shared on Facebook is a contemporary example. Pictures of celebrations round International Women’s Day were shared a couple of instances. The church is now celebrating its 75 years and feeding 75 needy other folks on a daily basis.
The iconic St Paul’s Cathedral, which is undergoing recovery paintings, has used its Facebook page to enchantment to its members to give a contribution budget thru account-payee cheques for the “massive repairs”.
Social media, say both church leaders and parishioners, are a large lend a hand relating to bridging the distance with absent parishioners, both young and old. Many young parishioners now paintings in other Indian towns or abroad and miss out on actions undertaken via their church. Elderly members often cannot attend church celebrations as a result of they is also indisposed. So churches now upload pictures or go live to tell the tale their pages, giving updates to these members.
Duff Church in Maniktala, as an example, organised several Facebook lives and uploaded pictures of prayer products and services and celebrations all the way through Christmas final year for members who could no longer attend. “It is a way of together with everyone in our pleasure and celebrations,” Reverend Biswajit Biswas said.
“We have taken to importing pictures of church programmes,” Reverend Sourojit Biswas of Osmond Memorial Church on S N Banerjee Road said.
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